This week’s therapy session went well. Erica showed me several ways to release stress when feeling anxious and I have already used them a few times since our meeting. We talked a lot about my body image issues and discussed where they may have stemmed from. After talking about my childhood and high school years we decided that my body image issues started around the age twelve and have gotten worse since I have started binging and purging. Erica asked me many times how I saw myself and this was hard to answer. It’s hard to explain to someone how it feels to look in the mirror and not recognize the person staring back at you. It is hard to explain to someone how angry and disgusted I feel after binging and purging; as I typically end up
